Cannot install laravel 5

[provun]

Hi

Getting an issue when installing laravel 5 with

composer create-project laravel/laravel ./ dev-develop --prefer-dist

Installing laravel/laravel (dev-develop e16868571bca8f4806b0affeca3ef4f9fbc9973a)

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league/flysystem suggests installing aws/aws-sdk-php (Allows you to use AWS S3 storage)
league/flysystem suggests installing dropbox/dropbox-sdk (Allows you to use Dropbox storage)
league/flysystem suggests installing phpseclib/phpseclib (Allows SFTP server storage)
league/flysystem suggests installing sabre/dav (Enables WebDav support)
league/flysystem suggests installing rackspace/php-opencloud (Allows you to use Rackspace Cloud Files)
league/flysystem suggests installing league/event (Required for EventableFilesystem)
league/flysystem suggests installing barracuda/copy (Allows you to use Copy.com storage)
league/flysystem suggests installing guzzlehttp/guzzle (Allows you to use http files (reading only))
predis/predis suggests installing ext-phpiredis (Allows faster serialization and deserialization of the Redis protocol)
symfony/translation suggests installing symfony/config ()
symfony/security-core suggests installing symfony/validator (For using the user password constraint)
symfony/security-core suggests installing symfony/expression-language (For using the expression voter)
symfony/routing suggests installing symfony/config (For using the all-in-one router or any loader)
symfony/routing suggests installing symfony/expression-language (For using expression matching)
symfony/event-dispatcher suggests installing symfony/dependency-injection ()
symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/class-loader ()
symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/config ()
symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/dependency-injection ()
symfony/http-kernel suggests installing symfony/var-dumper ()
patchwork/utf8 suggests installing ext-intl (Use Intl for best performance)
monolog/monolog suggests installing ext-amqp (Allow sending log messages to an AMQP server (1.0+ required))
monolog/monolog suggests installing ext-mongo (Allow sending log messages to a MongoDB server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing doctrine/couchdb (Allow sending log messages to a CouchDB server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing raven/raven (Allow sending log messages to a Sentry server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing ruflin/elastica (Allow sending log messages to an Elastic Search server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing aws/aws-sdk-php (Allow sending log messages to AWS services like DynamoDB)
monolog/monolog suggests installing graylog2/gelf-php (Allow sending log messages to a GrayLog2 server)
monolog/monolog suggests installing rollbar/rollbar (Allow sending log messages to Rollbar)
monolog/monolog suggests installing videlalvaro/php-amqplib (Allow sending log messages to an AMQP server using php-amqplib)
laravel/framework suggests installing doctrine/dbal (Allow renaming columns and dropping SQLite columns.)
laravel/framework suggests installing guzzlehttp/guzzle (Required for Mailgun and Mandrill mail drivers.)
sebastian/global-state suggests installing ext-uopz (*)
phpunit/phpunit suggests installing phpunit/php-invoker (~1.1)
Writing lock file
Generating autoload files
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'InvalidArgumentException' with message 'Dotenv: Environment file .env not found. Create file with your environment settings at /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/bootstrap/../.env' in /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/vendor/vlucas/phpdotenv/src/Dotenv.php:20
Stack trace:
#0 /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/bootstrap/environment.php(16): Dotenv::load('/home/vagrant/s...')
#1 /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/bootstrap/start.php(27): require('/home/vagrant/s...')
#2 /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/artisan(30): require_once('/home/vagrant/s...')
#3 {main}

thrown in /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/vendor/vlucas/phpdotenv/src/Dotenv.php on line 20

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'InvalidArgumentException' with message 'Dotenv: Environment file .env not found. Create file with your environment settings at /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/bootstrap/../.env' in /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/vendor/vlucas/phpdotenv/src/Dotenv.php on line 20

InvalidArgumentException: Dotenv: Environment file .env not found. Create file with your environment settings at /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/bootstrap/../.env in /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/vendor/vlucas/phpdotenv/src/Dotenv.php on line 20

Call Stack:
0.0005 223640 1. {main}() /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/artisan:0
0.0376 611768 2. require_once('/home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/bootstrap/start.php') /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/artisan:30
0.1184 1805816 3. require('/home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/bootstrap/environment.php') /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/bootstrap/start.php:27
0.1220 1819920 4. Dotenv::load() /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/bootstrap/environment.php:16

Script php artisan clear-compiled handling the post-install-cmd event returned with an error

[RuntimeException]
Error Output: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'InvalidArgumentException' with message 'Dotenv: Environment file .env not found. Create file with your environment settings at /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/bootstrap/../.e
nv' in /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/vendor/vlucas/phpdotenv/src/Dotenv.php:20
Stack trace:
#0 /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/bootstrap/environment.php(16): Dotenv::load('/home/vagrant/s...')
#1 /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/bootstrap/start.php(27): require('/home/vagrant/s...')
#2 /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/artisan(30): require_once('/home/vagrant/s...')
#3 {main}

thrown in /home/vagrant/sites/deflekted5/vendor/vlucas/phpdotenv/src/Dotenv.php on line 20

create-project [-s|--stability="..."] [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--repository-url="..."] [--dev] [--no-dev] [--no-plugins] [--no-custom-installers] [--no-scripts] [--no-progress] [--keep-vcs] [--no-install] [package] [directory] [version]

[JeffreyWay]

This isn't an issue with the generators.

Change .env.example in your root directory to .env.

[provun]

Apologies and can see that there are other people getting this issue over at laravel/framework#6032